CA Clarity PPM for NPD: Pipeline Management

A typical challenge facing many product development organisations is balancing resource capacity with demands from multiple, competing development projects. While you may be using effective stage planning and gate reviews to reduce individual project risk, you may still end up with conflicts at the project portfolio level.

How do you address this problem?

One effective way is by using pipeline management to prioritise and sequence all active projects for an optimum flow throughout your organisation.

Here’s how it works.

As each project stage is completed and approved at the gate review, it is added to the portfolio of active projects. These projects can then be re-evaluated as a whole to determine which of them scores highest based on pre-defined business and technology criteria.

CA Clarity PPM for NPD provides you with integrated project portfolio management functions such as multi-dimensional graphical analysis, what-if and efficient frontier analysis. These allow you to select the optimum set and sequence of development projects that you can deliver, based on available budgets and resources.